T.L. Mancour

I found a lot of this book quite uncomfortable because of the way Picard continued to doubt the androids fleeing slavery and to dismiss their concerns and needs. Admittedly, at this point in TNG Data's personhood is only somewhat established. Yet it's still an uncomfortable read, and largely because the slavery the androids are in does not resemble Roman slavery, which (harsh as it was) had the possibility of freedom in it; it resembles New World racial slavery, and the book doesn't even approach that issue. I found that very disappointing.… (mais)